Contact
Juan Almagro Zurita
Avenida Juan Gil Albert, 1 Edidicio Alcoy Plaza
03801 Alcoy (Alicante)
SPAIN
Ph +34 (0)966 52 85 49
Fax +34 (0)966 52 85 33
jalmagro(at)clusteraerocv.es
Website
Cluster Aero CV - Valencian Community Aerospace Cluster
Cluster Aeronaútico Aerospacial de la Comunidad Valenciana
Cluster Description
Facts & Figures
| Number of companies | 42 Members (3 Large Companies, 30 SME´s, 7 R&D Institutes and 2 Industry Associations) |
| Number of employees | 4,500 |
| Number of research institutes | 7 |
| Other cluster members | Collaboration with the UPV Universidad Politécnica de Valencia |
Cluster Management
| Organizational form | Non-Profit Private Association |
| Financing | Member fees and public funding from regional sources (30/70) |
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Cluster Competences and Strategy
Strengths & Competences
As an association of companies, our main strengths are:
1) The empowerment of the aeronautical sector in our region, helping our companies increase their level of competitiveness and innovation in this field.
2) Serve as an intermediary with the regional government in order to agree on regional development plans involving all the main actors: R&D Centers, Universities, Regional Government, Association Members.
Among our main competences we can mention: Engineering Services, Consultancy Services, different maintenance activities, structural and fire tests, metrology and calibration, mechanising, injection, tooling manufacturing and develop of R&D programmes.
Science & Research
The association is not directly involved in R&D projects, our mission is to promote projects that can be developed by our network of Institutes of Technology.
Our Technological Network (R&D Institutes plus the Universities) is present in R&D Regional, National and European Projects in many different fields.
- Use of Laser in cutting and manufacturing processes;
- Night Vision Integration;
- Light alloys developing;
- Design of new Composite Structural Components;
- Textile products for interiors and structural parts;
- Electronic components;
- Mould design for composite materials;
- Decrease of structural components weight by using laser melting techniques;
- Introduction of sensors in composite structural pieces to reduce the maintenance time.
International Collaboration
The CLUSTER AERO CV helps their associated companies to establish commercial relationships with potential customers by organising missions, being present in International Forums and trade fairs, signing cooperation agreements, etc..
The associated members are now present almost all over the world either having commercial relationships (companies) or developing R&D projects with differents partners (universities and R&D centres).
Main Challenges
- Increase the intensity of this sector in our region
- Increase the number of companies involved
- Increase the level of innovation and competitiveness of the companies
- Promote the participation of our R&D Members in Transnational projects
- Increase the cooperation between members and international partners
- Attract foreign companies to establish production, service or commercial actitivities in our region